Design for a Better Philippines

The UXPH event was a talk I never knew I needed, after weeks on working to finish my 1st project, I never knew the talk would inspire me and give me a heads up on the next steps that I should take once I feel like I'm ready to apply for an internship or a job if I'm lucky enough. Truly, an inspiring event.

As a student who is just starting to explore on my career options, the panel discussion on "Shaping Your UX Career" broadened my understanding of the UX industry. It was especially nice to know the origin story of each speaker, and how each of them were from different fields and just transitioned to UX. This proves to me that it is never too late to pursue anything as long as you choose to do so.

Thank you so much for hosting these community events! I want to be a UX designer and finding UXPH has helped a lot to find resources and people I can look up to.

One important thing that I learned from this year's UXPH event, is that in order for a UX Designer to be effective, empathy should be a driving factor to your decision-making process, and having empathy means breaking your own mental model, so you should be much more open to every social and cultural possibilities of uniqueness, and be an effective advocate of change.

I learned at this UXPH event that to understand that you must take a huge chunk of consideration the user's habits, experiences, habitat and behavior when designing an effective UX design. As a UX designer, you must defend the user's perspective, rather than metrics and etc.

I like how the speakers gave detailed insights about the different roles that make up a design team (especially the UXR role!). It gave more structure to my current knowledge as I'm a newbie in the UX industry. I'm in my 5th month working as a product designer in a startup (career shifter also) and doing both research and design has been very overwhelming, so I'm really looking for direction. I'd love to join more forums with UXPH!